Using the credit card and identity of a handcuff salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially and exponentially, and pretend to be someone really important and successful—God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being, results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking...
Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people`s lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job, her friends, her dog and her life. She loves her apartment and her commodious, quilt-lined bed. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with her boyfriend Bruce. But now `Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world`, Bruce has written in a national woman`s magazine. And Cannie - who never knew...
ISBN: 978-1-84983-400-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: март 2011
Another misadventure by everyone s favorite literal-minded maid finds Amelia Bedelia in charge of the house when Mr. and Mrs. Rogers go out for the day and leave her with a list of chores.
ISBN: 9780060511159
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2003
Set in the wild, seamy and extremely strange America of the nineteenth century: a historical novel so richly involving and so touching that you never want it to end. Young Ren is missing his parents and a hand and doesn’t know what happened to any of them. So he is beginning to fear that he will never be claimed from his cold New England orphanage: that his dream of a family – of a life – will come to nothing. But one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the orphanage. To Ren’s astonishment, the charming Benjamin Nab says he is his brother, come to bring him home. And even when his stories grow more and more extraordinary, when he puts Ren’s life in danger again and again and sets him first to theft and then to grave-robbing,...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5004-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
As winter turns to spring across Botswana`s red earth and slow green rivers, all is not well on Zebra Drive. Mma Ramotswe has plenty of work, ranging from thefts at the printing works to suspicious deaths at the Mochudi hospital. Meanwhile Mma Makutsi`s forthcoming marriage appears to threaten a happy working relationship. But when Mr - trying to prove himself a worthy husband - has a go at a little detective work, disaster Witty and wise, the latest instalment in the lives of McCall Smith`s extended Botswana family teaches the importance of trust, love and what really makes a good husband.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11773-7
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mr Matekoni becomes involved in the agency`s work when he investigates an errant husband. But can a man investigate such matters as competently as one of the ladies? Mma Ramotswe has her doubts. One thing, though, that she does not doubt is the good nature of Mr Matekoni, who stands for all that is solid and true in a shifting world.
The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are `playing the game` in style. That game has begun to unravel, however, and with compelling attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-653-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It`s a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pressing the limits. Confronting an ancient, implacable evil is more than just child`s play - and this time, Rachel will be lucky to escape with her very soul.
